Table 3.
Absolute and relative (90th Percentile) cutpoints for men and women stratified by the 10 -year coronary heart disease event risk defined by the Framingham Risk Score as low (<6%), intermediate (6-20%), or high (>20%) in the overall study population of subjects free of cardiovascular disease.
| Men | Women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRS |
Low
<6% |
Intermediate
6-20% |
High
>20% |
Low
<6% |
Intermediate*
6-20% |
| N | 741 | 798 | 113 | 1197 | 379 |
| Median | 0 | 18 | 294 | 0 | 5 |
| >90th # | 11.3% | 17.7% | 23.0% | 13.2% | 20.0% |
| >0 | 32% | 67% | 90% | 23% | 58% |
| >100 | 7% | 32% | 68% | 6% | 24% |
| >400 | 2% | 14% | 47% | 2% | 7% |
FRS: Framingham Risk Score;
#
indicates the percentage of individuals above the 90th percentile of the healthy reference cohort;
*
no results shown for women with high FRS because the sample size was too small